“His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing and jazz — everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime.”

— Evelyn Waugh , book The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

Source: The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957), Chapter 1

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British writer 1903–1966

William Baziotes (1912–1963) American painter

Modern Art U.S.A., R. Blesh, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1956, pp. 268-69
1950s

“He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

“His kisses were gifts. He kissed with everything he had, with power and passion and hunger and love. He held nothing back, giving everything, exposing everything.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

“The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.”

W. H. Auden book The Dyer's Hand

"Reading", p. 6
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)

“The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“The man of mark is never appreciated, either in his lifetime or in his own country.”

Camillo Federici (1749–1802) Italian actor and playwright (1749-1802)

L’uomo insigne non è mai apprezzato nè in vita, nè in patria.
I Preguidizi del Paesi Piccoli, Act II., Sc. V. — (L’Uffiziale).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 338.

“Thought that the discourses were everything – the place where they were delivered was nothing. He wanted his ideas to reach his countrymenand he had no objection to going wherever they were assembled, provided he got an opportunity to speak to them.”

Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842–1901) Indian scholar, social reformer and author

Gokhale's observation on Ranade’s preachings as a moderate quoted in "Mahadev Govind Ranade" page =116

“I did not share the enthusiasm of certain politicians for the National Front leader, it was because I had noticed, in the past, some strange contradictions between Mossadeq's declared ends and his actions. Officially he defended nationalist anti-colonialism and was the most intransigent patriot who declared that no concessions or advantages should be granted to foreign powers. He described his doctrine as a "negative balance" and in fact his greatest failing was that he was negative.”

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980) Shah of Iran

Page 52-53
Publications, The Shah's Story (1980), On world leaders and statesmen

“The true barbarian is he who thinks every thing barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

No. 333
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.”

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803) German poet, writer and linguist

As quoted in Day's Collacon: an Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations (1884), p. 639

“His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing and jazz — everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime.”

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